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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2007 22(1):278-279; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl536
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© The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
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Magnetic resonance imaging in a patient with chronic lithium nephropathy

Matthias Meier1, Andrea Beigel2, Lena Schiffer1, Jochen Lotz3, Markus Hiss1, Michael Mengel4, Hermann Haller1 and Anke Schwarz1

1Department of Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, 2Renal Unit Eickenhof, Langenhagen, 3Department of Radiology and 4Department of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Matthias Meier, MD, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany. Email: meier.matthias@mh-hannover.de

Keywords: bipolar disorder; lithium nephropathy; magnetic resonance (MR) imaging

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Nephrotoxicity in patients with affective disorders and on long-term treatment with lithium salts is a well-known pharmacological side effect [1]. About 20% of the patients on long-term lithium therapy may develop renal insufficiency with ‘creeping creatinine’ and increased risk for progression to end-stage renal disease [2].

We report here the case of a 51-year-old woman treated with lithium for over 30 years due . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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